Next week on May the 7th and 8th I will be attending the BMLA meeting in Solihull near Birmingham. I will be giving two talks, one in the morning of Friday the 8th, around 9:45am.
This talk is entitled: “Determining the optimum fluences required to irreversibly destroy hair follicles using numerical analyses.” In this talk I will be explaining how I have recently been using Monte Carlo simulations coupled with Arrhenius calculations to try to determine the best fluences for all wavelengths used for laser hair removal, including IPL.
My second talk, which is in the afternoon around 2:30pm, is entitled “Selective Photothermalysis Revisited: Why Matching the Pulsewidth with the TRT Argument is Fundamentally Wrong in Laser IPL Hair Removal.” Now you might think that sounds suspiciously like the first talk and you’d be kind of right. Except you’d be wrong.
The first talk is about finding the best fluence for hair removal, whilst the second talk will be discussing the whole idea of pulsewidth and thermal relaxation time. For many years, since the inception of Selective Photothermalysis, clinicians and laser users alike have been taught that we need to match the pulsewidth of our lasers or IPLs with the relaxation time of the target. For many years I’ve been saying this is wrong.
And guess what? I was right – it is wrong!
I’ve made some quite surprising discoveries on my journey to get to this point, including a new way to look at the actual problem. In these talks I discuss what we actually should be doing and not what we’ve been told to do for years.
I hope you can come along and either cheer me on or throw rotten tomatoes. I accept either!!
I will post these talks up onto my YouTube channel at some point after the conference and I do plan to publish my new findings sometime in the next few months.
In the meantime, don’t shoot the messenger. He sometimes gets it right.
Ciao for now,
Mike.
P.S. For the first time ever my colleagues and I will have a little stand there under the guise of the Association of Laser Safety Professionals. Come along and pick up a leaflet. They are wonderful. I made them all by myself. And have a wee chat if you like.
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